Hi Jan,
I don't have a Vim solution for your problem, but I would suggest to pass
the output of "vim -r" to a Gawk script, that can process it, and (using
the "system" function) take whatever action you may wish to take,
"automagically".
Antonio
PS Here is a small MS-DOS example (messages are in Italian):
d:\aca>vim -r|gawk " { print } "
Swap file trovati:
Nella directory in uso:
1. .hilldigr.old.swp
datato: Sat Feb 08 00:42:02 2014
nome file: /d/aca/hilldigr.old
modificato: no
nome utente: azc10 nome computer: slj
ID del processo: 5337
2. .hillgril.awk.swp
datato: Sun Jul 27 21:18:38 2014
(...)
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Jan Larres <li...@majutsushi.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently writing a plugin to handle existing swapfiles in a smart
> way.
> Unfortunately there is not much information about existing swapfiles
> directly
> available to plugins; as far as I can see only the filename is through the
> v:swapname variable. Everything else that may be relevant like the pid of
> the
> process that is currently using the swapfile, or whether the file has been
> modified since the last swapfile update, does not have similar
> functionality
> to access it.
>
> The information is available in the output of "vim -r", but this requires
> spawing a new Vim process and parsing the output manually. It would be
> handy
> if this information were available for example with a function that takes a
> filename as an argument and returns a dictionary with all of the relevant
> information. If possible and available it could also return the servername
> of
> the appropriate Vim instance to help with sending commands to it.
>
> -Jan
>
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